KATHMANDU, March 31: Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N) leader Kamal Thapa told the Constitutional Committee Tuesday morning that the country should go to referendum to decide on three issues of national importance: fate of monarchy, issue of secularism and structure of federalism.
While tabling RPP-N version of the constitution to the Constitutional Committee, Thapa said there should be a king as the symbol of cultural and national unity, and also as the constitutional head. The draft constitution has said Nepal should be a Hindu nation with full religious freedoms.
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Meanwhile, leader of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) Pashupati Shumsher Rana told the committee that the lower house should elect a Westminster-style prime minister. Rana said the president should be the constitutional head.
Rana said the state restructuring should be done as per the recommendations of a state restructuring commission that comprises experts as members.
The RPP head also said the courts should not leave loopholes letting individual or party authoritarianism to happen.
